Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
Also known as: Charles John Huffam Dickens, Charles Dickens, FRSA
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Charles John Huffam Dickens, FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Charles Dickens was trying to ban workhouses his whole career.

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